FOOTNOTES:
[56] Earth and Man, pp. 300-302.
[57] It is a remarkable fact, that the absence of salt in the food of the Eastern nations, especially the dark nations or races, has been very deleterious. An African child will eat salt by the handful, and, once tasting it, will cry for it. The ocean is the womb of nature; and the Creator has wisely designed salt as the savor of life, the preservative element in human food.
[58] Physical History of Mankind, vol. ii. pp. 45, 46.